The hidden trend in psychoanalysis -- The origin of the repressed individual (ontogenesis) -- The origin of repressive civilization (phylogenesis) -- The dialectic of civilization -- Philosophical interlude -- The historical limits of the established reality principle -- Phantasy and utopia -- The images of Orpheus and Narcissus -- The aesthetic dimension -- The transformation of sexuality into Eros -- Eros and Thanatos -- Epilogue: critique of neo-Freudian revisionism